Kim Kardashian and Mark Ballas on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Disney/Kelsey McNeal Logo text Kim Kardashian is ready to take on the next season of Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars.
The longtime reality star made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday, where the host asked her about her stint on the ABC competition series. She competed on the show’s seventh season in 2008 alongside Mark Ballas, and finished in 11th place, which Jimmy Kimmel noted was an earlier exit than Guillermo Rodriguez, who was kicked off the show this week.
“It’s so hard. I would honestly cry in my trailer every single night praying to get kicked off,” Kardashian said of her time on Dancing With the Stars. “It was so hard for me.”
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The All’s Fair star explained that her shyness didn’t allow her to enjoy the experience and that she hasn’t danced since. She said, “I was so shy. I couldn’t get over myself. I couldn’t get into it ’cause I was just so shy. And I’ve never danced again.”
“Like actually, I’ve never danced since. I am traumatized. No, it’s like traumatized me for life,” she added. Kimmel then played a clip of Kardashian and Ballas’ Mambo to “I Like Big Butts,” which she said was hard for her to watch back.
The host asked her when she had last seen the video of her performance, and she revealed she actually watched it pretty recently, and it sparked an idea for her family to potentially all compete on Dancing With the Stars one day.
“We had a family poker night three weeks ago. Kylie decides to put it on the big movie screen. Half the people there didn’t know that I did it, and she wanted to show everyone. Thank God it’s so old that it’s pixelated. There’s no HD version of it on YouTube,” she said.
“I got up and went in front of the screen, and I remembered some of my moves, and I wished that I had the confidence that I do now,” Kardashian said, “I told my sisters, I was like, ‘Could you imagine if we did, like, a Kardashian-Jenner whole season of all of us competing against each other on Dancing With the Stars?’ And we all loved it. We all were like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’ I mean, I don’t know if they would ever do that, but…”
Kardashian said her family was into the idea, particularly because her brother Rob Kardashian had such a successful run on the series. He competed on Dancing With the Stars season 13 in 2011 with Cheryl Burke, and nearly won the show, placing second to J.R. Martinez.
“My brother was so good. I would just want us all back. I don’t know if they bring people back, but I’d do it. I’d do it,” she said, which led Kimmel to say, “They would definitely bring you back.”
Across its 35-season tenure, Dancing With the Stars has only had one All-Star season full of returning contestants. Dancing With the Stars: All Stars served as the show’s 15th season and ran in 2012, with Melissa Rycroft being named the winner.
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